Spontaneous pulseaudio death

[Gilboa Davara]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 10:46 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Hi gang.  I've recently been having spontaneous pulseaudio daemon deaths
> occuring.  The daemon just quits.  There is a trace of it in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Oct 20 13:27:45 prophead pulseaudio[9301]: shm.c: shm_open() failed: No 
> such file or directory
> Oct 20 13:27:45 prophead pulseaudio[9301]: pstream.c: Failed to import 
> memory block.
> 
> Just curious if anyone else is experiencing this.  It may be related to
> a vpnc issue as it seems to happen after I've had to do a couple of
> vpnc...vpnc-disconnect cycles, but I can't confirm that as yet.
> 
> Oh, yeah, this is a fully updated F8 machine with pulseaudio 0.9.8 and
> vpnc 0.5.1.  Yes, I know F8 is old, but I need Xen for a couple of
> things and F9's dom0 for Xen is a no-go (says so in the release notes
> and confirmed by actual attempts to use it).


Hi,

Known issue.
Seems that the latest kernel/Alsa + PA push is broken.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462200

- Gilboa